Finding An Expired Domain For Your Internet Business

What is an expired domain and how can it help you in your internet marketing endeavors?

It's easy to explain, an expired domain is a domain that hasn't been renewed.

As with anything in life, there are all sorts of possible reasons this may have happened - it's possible the domain's owner simply forgot to renew, maybe their domain registrar didn't remind them (or used an out of date email address to tell them), maybe the domain owner bought the domain intending to do something with it and then changed focus. There are hundreds of reasons that a domain has been allowed to expire.

So how can you make money from expired domains?

For a start, Google are said to give more importance to domains the older they are. By definition, a domain name that has expired has been around for a minimum of a year, which means that it is automatically older than purchasing a brand new domain.

Secondly, if the domain has actually been used, there are likely to be links pointing to the website. There's also a very good chance that the search engines will know about it and will have indexed it.

The icing on the cake is if it actually has a Google Page Rank.

Yup, you read that right. There are a lot of expired domain names that have a Google Page Rank and even attract traffic.

The bad news is, you're not the only person looking for expired domains. The best expired domains are purchased the very second that they are put on the market.

Which means that if you are thinking about buying one or more expired domains either for your own use or to quickly "flip" and resell to other people, you'll need to work fast.

The simplest way to achieve this is to use a service that will allow you to search for domains that are soon to expire. This gives you a head start and will allow you to snap up the domain names you're interested in as soon as they expire and are allowed to be purchased again.

You can find one of the best services for tracking down expired domains here.